WEBVTT MOVIE RATHER THAN THE BEAUTIFULNAPA VALLEY THEY HAD JUSTENJOYED THE DAY BEFORE.MICHELLE THOMPSON AND HERHUSBAND LOVE COLLECTING WINE.>> MY HUSBAND WORKS IN BLUE ASH.HIS COMPANY IS IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA.>> SUNDAY MORNING WE WERESUPPOSED TO GO TO THE AIRPORTAND CATCH OUR FLIGHT AROUNDNOONHE WENT ON TO THE LOBBY AND SAIDTHERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE INTHE LOBBY ASKING WHAT WAS GOINGON.ALEXIS: THEIR FRIENDS AT ANOTHERRESORT HAD TO GET OUT EVENFASTER.>> THEY TEXTED IN THE MIDDLE OFTHE NIGHT AND SAID THEY WEREEVACUATED.THEY HAD TO LEAVE THE RESORT.IT WAS GETTING CLOSER.THEY REALLY HAD TO FLEE.THEY WERE IN SERIOUS DANGER.THEY WERE RECOMMENDING VISITORSGET OUT AND LEAVE AS SOON ASPOSSIBLE.WE PACKED OUR THINGS AND WENTOUTSIDE.THE AIR WAS FULL OF ASH ANDSMOKE.IT BURNED OUR EYES.ALEXIS: THOMPSON THOUGHT SHE ANDHER HUSBAND WERE IN THE CLEARONCE THEY LEFT SAN FRANCISCO.>> I CAME HOME TO CINCINNATIYESTERDAY.HE HAD TO TRAVEL ON TO LA.WE THOUGHT LA WAS COMPLETELYSAFE.HE SAID HE WALKED OUT OF THEAIRPORT AND THE AIR WAS THE SAMETHAT IT WAS IN SAN FRANSCISO.HE SAID IT WAS FILLED WITH SMOKEAND ASH.ALEXIS: SHE IS JUST HAPPY TO BESAFE.NEARLY A DOZEN PEOPLE HAVE DIEDIN THE FIRES SINCE SUNDAY.TENS OF THOUSANDS HAVE HAD TO

A Cincinnati couple is no stranger to California’s wine country, but when they awoke to heavy smoke and ash during a recent visit, they said they felt like they woke up to a scene in a science fiction movie.

Michelle Thompson and her husband love collecting wine. They were vacationing in Napa Valley when California’s deadly wildfires began to spread.

Which is why Thompson was startled when her husband woke her up in the wee hours of the morning.

“They were recommending the visitors get out and leave the valley as soon as possible. We packed our things, went outside and the air was just full of ash and smoke. It burned our eyes. We could feel it in our throats. We headed to San Francisco as quickly as we could,” Thompson said.

Their friends at another resort had to get out even faster.

“They texted in the middle of the night and said they were evacuated. They had to leave the resort,” Thompson said. “It was getting closer. They really had to flee. They were in serious danger."

Thompson thought she and her husband were in the clear once they left San Francisco.“I came home to Cincinnati yesterday. He had to travel on to LA. We thought LA was completely safe. He said he walked out of the airport and the air was the same that it was in San Francisco. He said it was filled with smoke and ash," Thompson said.